Posts by Dan Paul
417 posts • joined Tuesday 3rd July 2007 11:40 GMT
Re: And so why the flooding in NYC?
If that's the case, perhaps we should all consider the advantages of bringing on even more flooding so that NY Shitty and all of the Skinner Box assholes that live and breed there would simply get washed away in the resulting cleansing flood.
You may want to look at the fact that Hurricane Sandy happened at high tide so whatever margin of safety that remained was used up when the storm arrived.
Stupid people who rebuild where flooding is common knowledge should not be allowed to have insurance.
You also might want to consider that the NYC Mob (politicians included) might have skimmed off all the cash that was supposed to be used to create a drainage system that actually worked in a hurricane.
Again, all the more need for the great flood to wash away that cesspool called NY City.
Same BS, Different Bean Counters
So you say you can't find enough "skilled workers" ????
This is the same shit from the same pointy haired douchebags that populate Dilbert just coming from a different part of the world.
The TRUTH IS that there are plenty of skilled people available, they just are not stupid enough to fall for your fatuous bull crap anymore.
This is ONLY a thinly veiled attempt to justify bringing in cheep Asian programmers. They try this in the USA from time to time and are successful getting more H1B Visas granted and filled, until the poor bastards realize how much they have been cheated of better wages and find a "real" job someplace else.
These same HR dicks lie to job candidates saying that they don't have the skills yet to justify the full wages and benefits so they are on 'probation" or some such crap, just so they can hold a sword over their heads.
Remember to check Salary.com next time before you accept their pittance of an offer.
No! You have many other search choices including using your own mind (but that's too hard!)
Only the mentally incompetent, who are completely unredeemable anyway; would not understand the search results are skewed for EVERY SEARCH PROVIDER.
Google is no different but not any worse. In my mind, price comparison companies like Found'em are far worse than Google.
Anyone with half a brain already knows that the top few rows of search results are generally ad's, not results.
Google should sue Found'em for libel just for the fun of it.
He's only right until he becomes wrong...
I propose that such machine intelligence will eventually happen. No one ever wants to give Science Fiction it's due but so many SF authors have been utterly correct in so many predictions.
Much in the same way that a million monkeys might eventually type out the Bible, something will eventually link multiple computer systems together into a neural network, probably when a really sophisticated computer worm infects a large distributed "cloud" system that also has AI research systems in the same cloud.
The more complex the systems, the more basic elements of intelligence will be present. I believe that "Search" systems would be likely candidates due to the immense amount of parallel processing power involved and the nature of the code.
Laugh all you like, but it is quite possible even to the extent of probability.
Re: Many people suffer from depression
No, the Chief Prostituter was responsible for delivering actual justice, not a vendetta (DOJ already had mud on their face for a case they lost against Swartz for a nearly identical issue).
In the US we have a principle that is supposed guide the hand of justice saying that the punishment must fit the crime. In this case there was gross miscarraige of justice for sure.
When JSTOR ultimately declined to prosecute and backed out, DOJ SHOULD have dropped all the charges because constitutionally speaking if there is no accuser, there is no longer a crime. Swartz had legal authorized access to all the files at JSTOR and to MIT, the only "hacking" he did was write a script that allowed them all to be downloaded consecutively. If he had done them one at a time there could have been no case. Really, how could that have been considered criminal if it were not for prosecutorial overreach?
Not everyone is as iron assed as you are and certainly no one can truly speak for the dead. Considering that the DOJ made use of his well known depression (that disclosure is part of the records) to put undue influence on him (because they can) and he and his parents were almost bankrupt from the defense costs, there may have been greater pressure on him than any normal person could have tolerated. This was not "the chicken way out", as depression supersedes the ability to think rationally.
The fact the the Chief Prostituter was also running for elected office and she was looking for a "win" obviously made "winning at any and all costs" a requirement.
I hope God gives her "Karmic Retribution" like no one in history.
Re: They have the authority...AND THEY DO NOT DESERVE IT!
We should give up NOTHING or the terrorists have won.
You would prefer that we give up the very principles that this country was founded on so we can be more "secure"? If that is so, then you do not deserve to be a citizen nor does anyone with similar defeatist attitude.
You should read more or if reading is too tedious, I can recommend "V for Vendetta" as a near picture perfect representation of where the USA is headed for under Obama's DOJ, emboldened by the Bush/Cheney "Patriot Act"..
ALWAYS look to the Israeli's for advice on terrorists. They do not negotiate with them, they obliviate them when ever practical. They don't play silly politically correct games or argue semantics when looking for the enemy.
They would never had let the Boston Bomber back in the country and would have fully believed the Russians warnings unlike our smug DHS morons (who all need to be fired).
The "underwear" bomber would never have gotten in this country and the 9/11 hijackers would not have had the chance to get on the planes that fateful day.
However, a bunch of pantywaist do-gooders say we can't use racial profiling when any pragmatic realist would argue that if it looks like an Al Qaeda terrorist and smells like one, then you better put them on the No Fly list or just shoot first and ask questions later.
Funny thing about the Israeli's...no one in their right minds ever wants to cross the Mossad the wrong way. They never seem to be heard from again and that's a "Good Thing".
Opinions & Autocomplete Algorithims are like Arseholes
Everybody either has one, is one or one enters similar search terms.
How can this be the fault of Google or it's algorithim when it is clear that the majority of people searching for these subject terms are looking for those specific words? Their search terms are effectively opinions, not libel.
Seems there are far too many absolutists in the German Government. Not everything in this world is either black or white.
However, an autocomplete algorithim that fails to look at the total number of similar searches will no longer provide meaningful results, thereby damaging Google. Or Apple, or Microsoft or whatever autocomplete algorithim is being pilloried today.
Cue cries of "Burn the Witch"
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one. (Especially when the "ones" are pederdasts or Scientologists).
Perhaps Google should provide a totaizer showing how many users seached with those exact terms, then there could be some idea of the reliability of results as well as proof they are not changing them.
Re: What goes around...should be applied to you personally and professionally dipwad!
Coward, It is exactly people like you that are the problem with American Society in general. Are you sure you are not Matt B? You sure sound and write like him. You are indeed clueless and especially ignorant.
Obviously, you must be of such mettle that you do not suffer any health issues.
Given all the recent evidence of prosecutorial overreach in other recent cases, the IRS singling out a particular anti-conservative viewpoint in granting tax exempt status etc etc then it is all the more imortant that we as a people reject the idea that the DOJ can use it's powers against a citizen in what amounts to a case of free speech versus freedom of access to publicly funded information.
To use ones psychological infirmities against a defendant is the same as the KGB did under Stalin and the SS did under Hitler. It was not fair play then and could not be considered to be fair play today, especially in a US Court.
Perhaps you should know that the IRS will have direct access to your health records under Obama Care and will now be able to use the diagnosis of a mental issue against you in court in the same way that it was against Aaron Swartz.
AC Must be from Found'em
And yet, no other search engine can come close to Google...because they don't have as good of a product dipwad. The EU does not need to do anything, they just want to screw with Google for the blackmail value.
The EU should take their BS investigations and look up their own ass. They will find a biased useless agency that has no value making decisions about viable companies that HAVE VALUE.
EU=Oxymoron
Posted in On the hunt for a new ampere
Re: Leave well enough the frick alone please.....
C18,
Science simply for the sake of science is in many cases, an incredible waste of resources.
Changing units of measurement that are frankly quite good enough for what they are used for (simply because you can) is extraordinarily stupid. AND a huge waste of resources...
I suggest a new unit for such people, the microfuckwit. a unit of measurement that not only defines the unit but the person using it.
Re: Look at the track record (EXACTLY)
Folks,
To paraphrase, a wise man once said that "You will only begin to recognize the need for the Second Article of the Constitution when they come to take away the First".
I believe that ANY attack on the Constitution of these United States, is an act of Treason and should be treated as such.
Here within just a couple of years, we have had multiple such incidents that are beginning to make Richard Nixon look like a choirboy. Honorable mention to DOJ v Aaron Swartz, the Benghazi coverup, various attacks on gun ownership in direct violation of at least 4 Constitutional amendments, now what amounts to unauthorized wiretapping of 20 journalists phones (just the phone records my ass), oh and the IRS being used to squash any dissenting point of view.
Who know what else they've done that we haven't found out yet
We no longer need to fear terrorism, we must now learn to fear our own government.
Remember, War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength.
Posted in On the hunt for a new ampere
Leave well enough the frick alone please.....
Perhaps, you might want to reconsider as there is not one damn thing wrong with the Amp just the way it is. Perhaps those who want to diddle around with miniscule values might just realize that measurements that small don't have any redeeming value in how "accurate" they are compared to one another.
Quit frikking around whith shite that does not provide any benefit. This is another case of Schroedingers twat.
Re: Software Vendors, stop lying to your customers and just sell them the product!
No, It is my contention that any contract or other document that is deliberately too obtuse, lengthy or too complicated is not valid.
Or at least it can be argued that it is not binding here in New York State where we have a plain english contract law.
On the other hand, if the place where I "purchase" the software does not call it a purchase but calls it a lease or subscription than you might have a case but they did not call it a lease so the store misled me when I "bought" the product in question.
Newsflash - Doublespeak for Cloudy Future of Office (and everything else MS)
No, I have no association with "E".
Just a rabid dislike for the so called "Cloud" and anything SaaS regardless of WHO sells these lies.
Amy Hood is ONLY getting the job as MS CFO and is a part of "Strategic Development" because she was marginally successful with Office 365 a "cloud" service.
“strong financial and operational management through her time on the business.” otherwise meant as that "witch could wring blood from a stone and nickle and dimed the team to death"
More proof that MS is on the downward spiral.
Software Vendors, stop lying to your customers and just sell them the product!
I am sick of lying software vendors that are selling software "rental" solutions instead of an actual product.
When I purchase a product of any kind, I then own it. Once I own it, the right to use it when, where and how I want to, is conferred to me or mine. If I choose to use it forever, no vendor should be able to say we turned you off because you did not buy another update, subscription etc etc etc.
SAAS cannot be interpreted to imply any ownership, only rental. This is just utter BS.
As a group, all El Reg readers need to revolt and vote with their feet and wallet wherever possible to stop this ridiculous trend.
Anyone who buys into the "cloud" is a fool because they have not "bought" anything. There is no product, no warranty, no physical ownership, and no responsibility from the vendor. The could is vaporware, plain and simple.
Where is the value in that?
Underlying bones of Win 8 are an improvement but not the GUI
From what I have seen, the hardware support in Win 8 is actually much better than Win 7 IF you are using rather recent hardware. If not, there are still some improvements. In fact, I have used several Win 8 drivers in a Win 7 operating system and they work just fine.
That may open the door to hybrid Win 7/8 possibilities kind of like http://www.mdgx.com/upd98me.php where Axcel216 was keeping Win 98 alive by merging newer files with it. Mostly worked quite well and was fun back in the day.
We almost all agree that the Win 8 GUI sucks rabid monkey butt.
The logical conclusion to all the complaining is that "Blue" will resolve that issue at a minimum by putting a different "skin" similar to Classic Shell into the mix.
That's why the call it a "Shell" as it's no big deal to put a new shell on these operating systems and they've been doing it since XP.
Personally, I have used Classic Shell on Win 7 for quite a while and see no reason to change to Win 8 so I'm waiting for Windows 9 at this point.
All I can say is V22 Osprey not a friendly aircraft
When I was a boy, my dad worked for Bell Aerosystems and they were developing the X22A experimental version of what became the V22 Osprey.
The experimental version looked like a futuristic minibus with four large ducted fans tied to onboard turbines.
See http://www.aero-web.org/specs/bell/x-22a.htm
That thing had NO LIFT besides the fans (still doesn't have much) and when it lost power during flight trials it crashed like a stone.
The Osprey is a little better because there is at least "some" autogyro action from the MUCH larger rotors. They got rid of the ducted fans when it was determined they did not provide any advantage.
This is the closest thing to a flying VTOL "car" (as in carrying lots of cargo and passengers) that flew "successfully"
When is the law not the law? When I judge it to be so!
<sarcasm/irony> It is my fervent religious belief that stupidity and ignorance are mortal sins. I also believe that I am granted the religious right to remove such sinners from the gene pool.
Therefore, If I judge certain laws to be the work of the ignorant and stupid; I no longer have to obey them.
Not only that but I have been ordained by DOG to hunt down and liberate the souls of such non-believers as may stand in the way of the rightous. <sarcasm/irony>
Sounds strange but this is the same type of logic coming from the Left here in the US as the try to circumvent and pollute the Constitution and institute their "laws".
People make light of the Second Article of the Constitution (It was never an amendment, its part of the original backbone of the Constitution). It isn't about guns, it's all about the liars and thieves who consider themselves above the law (Cuomo, Schumer, Bloomberg, Obama etc).
If the Constitutution really needs to be changed, the process is called a Constitutional Convention. These scumbags are too afraid to go through the legally defined process because they know that they are wrong and are breaking the law.
If to change a law, you have to break 5 of the most sacred legal trusts and oaths in the USA what does that make you?
A treasonous enemy combatant...no matter WHAT rank or office you hold, THAT'S what it makes you.
Ala Carte choices please...
Please Youtube... PLEASE do not force people to take dross they do not want just so they can get the channels that they do want. Ala Carte pricng model works for me.
That model is so ridiculous with Time Warner Cable and Comcast.
Why should I have to pay for the 900 channels of sports when all I want are the News, History, Movie, Scyfy and Educational channels?
Not to mention that digital TV is streaming TV and they need to do something to decrease the bandwidth usage. If they'd let me "delete" a channel, I would never open it and it's representative bandwidth would no longer be used by my IP address. Multiply that times millions of cable boxes and the bandwidth issue is solved.
Then maybe Youtube can work out deals with the cable companies so they stop the traffic shaping that only affects Youtube and no other website I visit (Yes, I know that Youtube is partially responsible and needs better bandwidth themselves)
Time for the International Thunder Dome....... Two Go In, (N)One Comes Out
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Welcome to Thunder Dome! Tonight for your viewing pleasure we have "Arab Biased Anonymous Coward" and "Jewish Biased Matt Byant".
We will let the "Dome" determine what thousands of years of war has not...who gets the area formerly known as "Palestine"!?
Guys, I was 11 years old in 1967 watching the tanks roll in the Six Day War and every year it's the same BS. Threats, intimidation, shelling, funerals, pictures of bombed out buildings, burnt flags and effigies, more lies and prevarications, bogus peace talks, more useless US aid to arsholes on both side we can ill afford.
As the Special Forces boys are wont to say...Fuck'em all and let God sort it out. Both sides act like spoiled brats that need a good asswhuppin. Both side deliberately self sabotage each and every decent solution that is put forth. Please let them both have what they deserve.
There will be no peace in the Middle East until each and everyone on BOTH sides are dead as they are both completely batshit crazy and will NEVER see reason or logic, EVER.
Push the button and get it over with please. The sooner we get to start over the better. Used to be we'd just have a nice plague or flood to keep the idiots in line but that's not kosher anymore.
I think the word is "Hospitable" ?
Not to be pedantic but the word that madestjohn is trying to say is "hospitable" or perhaps a better word would be "inhabitable". Unfortunately the english language is full of difficult words that don't translate well.
Next, his statement about liquid water is on the mark. Almost every chemical reaction for the building blocks of life require H2O to ocurr.
Icahn = Death of Dell
Carl Icahn should have to pay more for Dell than anyone else because he will simply rip the limbs of the writhing tortured carcass of Dell one at a time just to enjoy the sounds of the screaming.
Mind you, there is usually nothing good that comes from change of any kind. But certainly there will be no good to anyone involved in Dell if Icahn gets his dirty little claws into it. Employees beware.....
Are they "Cooking the books"?
Somehow, I cannot believe the unemployment report statistics because there is too much at stake for the Obama administration and that all of the people involved in the statistics are emplyed by the government.
It is so interesting that these numbers keep getting better but the economy hasn't.
Soon you will be required to wear "Googles" all the time as part of the Surveillance Society
Mark my words, this will become part of a worldwide surveillance solution and we will be required to wear them all the time. Google will lobby for it under the guise of "National Security".
If Orwell could have concieved of such a device back then, it would have been featured in "1984".
"Googles" will become part of a "Minority Report" style Thought Police PreCrime system. They will all be linked into the web 24/7/365 and any alphabet soup agency will have backdoor access. In fact, they are all having technogasms just thinking about it now
This concept will all be in a new William Gibson novel soon enough. Too late for Phillip K. Dick my second most favorite Cynically Paranoid writer. (Theodore Sturgeon is number one)
I call dibs on a 10% royalties for the idea. The mere act of this post covers me legally.
Can we have an automatic downposter option please?
Please, may we have a way to select a specific handle name and fill in some form for proof that allows one to automatically downvote all posts by specific posters as they show up in a thread?
It would just make it a lot less tedious than clicking "back to the forum" a dozen times in one thread.
Totally Skewed Survey, never believe any of them!
First you would have had to be a customer of Soluto (and not uninstall their spurious sounding crapware). That limits the playing field right there.
Next, it appears that you would have to be part of a subset of people who buy computers from Dell, Lenovo or some other crap PC manufacturer who provides crap driver support, no updates, modifies the stock drivers or hamstrings them.
Why would you not think they would crash frequently?
I have built perhaps 40 PC's myself over the years and can count the number of true hard crashes on one hand. But then, i don't install crapware or ridiculously old software, I do all the updates and tell people how to do this properly. There are no monitoring and "nanny" programs on my computers.
Are the PC's in question from individual private users or are they from a call center? Big frikkin difference there! What software is running on them? The first rule is that Crap Software begets Crap Performance. What are the specific reasons for the crashes? Patchy or incomplete software & driver updates, particularly old browsers are often the cause of instability. Are they running new applications on old PC's or old apps on new PC's?
Taxi Licenses and resulting Medallions are State Sponsored Monopoly's operated by the Mob
Since NYC is one of the most politically and physically corrupt cities in the world, how could anyone think that there is not an ulterior motive for them denying the use of various apps to call a cab?
In order to even get a medallion, one not only has to pay a portion of the fare but a huge bribe to the people that hold the main francise. Let's not even discuss the actual cost of the medallion itself. There are no main francises available and they will never become available to the "public".
The cost of two unrestricted taxi medallions in March 2013 was $2.42 MILLION DOLLARS.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/about/average_medallion_price.shtml
Why be anonymous! Email them all!!!
I have just emailed the principal and two local newspapers telling them what I thought of the schools ignorance and stupidity.
The rest of you El Reg readers should also.
Idiocracy is right on the mark...Death to Ignorance!
Troy,
As an American, I completely agree with you that the movie Idiocracy is not fiction it's prediction. I'll go one further by saying that the characters in the movie are not all that different than the people that are teaching our youth today, especially in poorer school districts and quite obviously in Southern Schools.
Your statement about how a "kid today with a passion for science has a better chance of being accused as a radical terrorist rather than the potential Einstein that they may be" is sadly more truthful than anyone could expect.
I posted a while back in this thread regarding how I was given direction and inspiration by the father of a childhood friend. My son is now 30 and I tried to offer him the same kind of offbeat educational experiences that I had and he has done well for himself. He and his lovely wife made me a proud Grandpa. They are both very free thinkers and have already suffered from their unwillingness to tolerate religious BS.
Oh, the price we pay, we few that can see through the injustices and stupidity of the rest of the world....and arent afraid to speak the truth. If only the truth could actually set you free instead of ruining your career.
I can only hope that our childrens children can escape from the clutches of the mentally and emotionally retarded people that now make up our "education" and "justice" system.
There is a place in Hell that burns all the hotter for those teachers who can only inspire further mediocrity and those in the legal "profession" who let emotions rule over logic and reason.
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The first rule of Bankruptcy - Snag it while you still have access to it!
That was the smartest move that Intel or anyone else could make. They grabbed their money before the receivers or lawyers could.
A wise man once said "Possession is 9/10 of the law" and nothing could be closer to the truth here.
Just like you Lewis!
Lewis, as a child, I made my first batch of black gunpowder when I was 13. I did not get the proportions correct as it was a fizzle, not a bang. The father of a childhood friend took us aside as he was a chemist and said that he did not want to stifle our creativity but wanted instead to give us lessons in safe preparation. That was due to his own precocious experimentation at the same age with making gunpowder that eventually lead to him becoming a Harvard educated PHD Chemist with several patents . This man became a lifetime mentor and friend. When he developed Alzheimers late in life, I was so sad to see such brilliant mind wasting away. God rest his soul! It is too bad that there are not more people like him in this sick world.
I became an engineer in part due to his tutelage and my proclivities.
The problem with people like these so called educators is that their fears and doubts and their overly emotional upbringing contaminate their thinking and thus their teaching process. Their F.U.D. is exacerbated wildly by the media and the overly protective busybodies that land in the Social Services & Education fields.
They "think" they are doing the "right" thing by calling the police. What they did was to literally kill this young womans chances at life when no harm was caused or intended.
This is why all children that exhibit any kind of independence, or intelligence need to be removed from the general education system as early as possible so they do not become ruined by the shortcomings of the "Indoctrination System". Let them become Scientists, Engineers and Leaders of Men and let the rest become the sheep their "teachers" train them to be.
What this girl did was no worse than a 7 grade science experiment and now she is a "criminal" for life.
I say that any prosecutor that proceeds with this case needs to be removed from office and banned from the legal profession, made homeless and broke . Frankly the assistant principal needs to be burned as a witch.
I have "zero tolerance" for morons like them and their supporters. Death to Ignorance and Stupidity!
Die a painful death AIRBNB!
I won't even hand this info to the Federal Government unless they have "Just Cause" and a warrant to get the info.
Any property rental company would simply take a scan of my license when I arrived to get the keys and be done with it. There is absolutely no reason to have more info than that. Property owners who are concerned about losses need to keep the valuable knick knacks out of the rentals.
AIRBNB needs to be stricken from the Internet for even asking for this detailed level of info. And they have the audacity to store it online???
So I would assume they have 3 factor logins (for everyone) and 256 bit FIPS approved encryption of EVERYTHING????
Not....
AGW proponents don't listen to reason because it has become a Religion
Thanks for the common sense statement that we really don't "know" what makes the climate tick, we can only speculate.
My problem comes from the fact that AGW proponents have the fervor of religious zealots, not the common sense of rational humans who are able to see both sides of the argument.
When zeal supersedes facts and rational thought, then there is no sense even trying to discuss the subject. It's about as fruitful as arguing the existence of God.
Can someone do the same thing to the "Ask Toolbar" Please!!!!!?????
As far as I am concerned, some regulator someplace needs to make all so called "Toolbars" illegal so that the various scum that tie their so called "free" products to some kind of toolbar download can all go to hell and rot collectively, forever.
Any software vendor that uses these toolbar driveby downloads needs to find a better way to monetize their product. Especially the ones that use confusing language or install the crapware even if you already unchecked the "Please Install" boxes. You may have created a great product but the crapware you allowed will turn me off right away.
Let's hope someone ELSE will make a 'Droid hardware compatible OS
Here is hoping that somebody like Cyanogen will modify Android to remove all the nasty Google phone home bits and blackhole all the uneeded App communications permissions leaving us with an "open" OS that works and does not suck up data or batteries and is safe and secure. I would GLADLY pay $100 for that privilige especially if it included the best part of Palm Pilot contact management software so I don't have to rely on the "Cloud" and sync contacts and emails direct from my PC and still be able to use standard Android apps.
ALL Current Cell Phone Service Providers, Hardware & Software Manufacturers are Greedy Pfucks.
This needs to change and the solution could be crowdsourced rather easily.
Logitech are way better than most on the market and shine in some categories
I have several Logitech products, two K750 wireless solar keyboards, an Anywhere Mouse MX "Darkfield mouse, and a K400 Wireless keyboard with touchpad.
All of them work well albeit the K750 keys take some getting used to, the K400 is perfect for my media PC and works well over 30 ft from the computer and nobody offers such a convenient keyboard/touchpad combo. The MX mouse is great as it works on ANY surface VERY well and battery life is not as bad as many have made out. I don't turn it off and use it every day at work and the batteries last 3 over months. I have never replaced batteries in the K400 since I bought it 6 months ago and yes it could have been better made but it only cost $24 at Walmart and it works fine for what I need it for.
I have never broken any Logitech product yet either. In my experience Microsoft products have invariably sucked, particularly their mice.
It seems so easy to complain about everything on ElReg. Let's see some commentards tell us what the like or recommend instead.
What about natural causes of Nitrogen Oxides? Plant Decay anyone?
During the sping and summer, air separation & liquifaction plants have a difficult time purifying out the excessive nitrogen oxides that naturally occur due to the decay of vegetation. That "Spring like " smell is often from the products of decomposition.
Same thing applies to CO2 and methane produced from biological activity in the ground, manure, other waste and water. (not all natural but most is)
If the truth could ever be told in this discussion, the non manmade sources of greenhouse gases are so numerous and voluminous as to boggle the mind and in almost every discussion or climate model are entirely discounted by those who continue to deny logic and reason and blame mankind.
I do not deny that we contribute pollutants but we are insignificant compared to nature.
Posted in Win8 drivers affecting Win7?
Re: Win8 drivers affecting Win7?
Neil,
Try looking at "Problems with Tap to click" in your searches. perhaps the laptop is confused by having Windows 8 Hardware and running Windows 7. Just had something similar happen using a new Windows 8 compatible Logitech wireless keyboard with built in touchpad (for my media pc). It just did not want to click, it preffered to "tap". A driver update for the keyboard helped.
On the other hand you may have to delete and reinstall the drivers with a full reboot in between.
Re: All men have the right to Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness (this is not it!)
If there was ever a reason to use the rights endowed in the Second Amendment (and the Jeffersonian interpretation of WHY the Second Amendment exists IE to allow the people to overthrow an unjust and tyrannical government), then now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.... I have not forgotten the rights and obligations of citizenship.
Re: our data ( is not ours and hasn't been for a long time)
First, there are almost no successful class action suits in the USA, AND if you used Google for any reason, you already gave away all your rights just by using their "services, products etc". In that case, Google could argue that there was no legal infraction as the individual uses Gmail or Android and had to allow them access to their personal data.
This is true here in the USA and in the EU. So they "slurped" your data.... I rather have Google do that than someone wardriving my neighborhood.
Re: German Watchdog Whacks Google
I completely agree, upvote you and while we are at it; what about the credit rating agencies (Equifax, Experian, Transunion Etc) who have way more influence on our daily lives, have EVERY POSSIBLE piece of data available on you and are COMPLETLY UNREGULATED!
No more computers in MY Car please! Time to buy 1960's circa Autos!
It's bad enough to have the manufacturers computer controls for powertrain & emissions, let alone another or replacement computer.
I will predict now that the manufacturer T's & C's will allow them to sell so called "anonymized data" to the State, Insurance Companies, Ad Agencies, for position, mileage, speed, acceleration, all of which will be used against you in violation of your 5th Amendment Rights against self incrimination to cost you more for everything automobile related. The car won't run without the computer and you will be prevented from modifying it legally. Don't you know it's a "privilige" to drive?
The alphabet soup agencies will be granted back door rights to enable them to communicate directly with the computer to open up eavesdropping, remote engine enable/disable, control of brakes, gas pedal and transmission, etc, etc, etc.
Soon, we will see the advent of "direct ticketing" like in "5th Element" where Bruce Willis character gets points on his liscense automatically, completely bypassing right to trial by jury or even by judge.
This is all in an effort to remove any remaining reason to have "drivers", including the enjoyment of driving.
All men have the right to Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness (this is not it!)
When are politicians ever going to understand that these uneccessary laws only serve to further trample the freedoms proscibed in the US Constitution that even protect the damned politicians?
Do you think they will squawk when the NSA/CIA/FBI/ETC starts bugging their offices (and emails now) just like Nixon and J Edgar Hoover did to their opponents?
NO LAWS (OR SECURITY THEATER) WILL EVER HELP STOP THE CONCERTED EFFORTS OF A TRUE TERRORIST!
This putrid crap is the brainchild of alphabet soup agencies that only continue to exist if they lie to the American People about how effective they are.
Only the really dumb or mentally deficient terrorists ever get caught and in the meantime, we lose a bit of our freedoms every day. Don't say you weren't warned, if you fail to speak up it's your fault.
Mark my words....Soon, there will be nothing left to lose and it will be too late to do anything about it.
Re: We need another war
Hey, D. A. M. lets take everything to wild extremes instead of using some modicum of rational thought. Typical liberal dipwad thinking ONLY with your heartstrings instead of your brain.
The fact remains that the entire world economy came out of the Great Depression due to WWII and nothing else. Ask anyone over 56 or those in their 80's while they are still here to learn from.
The "Boom Years" that followed in the 50's and 60's are what gave you the standard of living we have enjoyed for 40 years. They could not have occurred if WWII or resulting Cold War did not happen.
FTC needs a clue - ALL Telcos are lying thieves and need a swift ball rearrangement
If Cyanogen can put out a mod for damn near every Android device on the market, the Telco's can update their phones software/firmware every month.
While we are at it FTC, make them take off all the damn bloatware and telco specific crap. THOSE are the only reasons why they don't push regular updates out to their phones (of any OS make) because they deliberately screw up the stock Android software.
There are NO VIABLE HARDWARE RELATED REASONS!
Fine them into oblivion by taking away spectrum everytime they screw up!
Re: Time to just say "Piss Off"
Because I still don't see where the value is relative to what I pay in overall taxes. I pay about 40% for overall income tax not counting the 9% sales tax on everything I buy and all the other taxes that are cumulative.
If government was treated as a "business' they would not be in the mess they are in now and I would likely have a choice to use someone else that did not steal quite so much of my money every week.
So for taxes that are literally half or more of what I make, I GET bupkus from the government, until I retire, if I am lucky enough to live that long. But then, my "Social Insecurity" payments will be taxed (on money they already taxed).
I make too much money to qualify for the social programs 55% of the populace is getting today. When I do finally qualify (practically on my deathbed), those programs won't be funded any longer.
I should be able to claim at least 100 dependents as that's what these welfare cases and government civil servants are, my "dependents". They sit on their ass while I work mine off.
War helps create new technology so did the "Space Race" and "Cold War"
SirDigalot, I have to agree but it hasn't always been during an attempt to kill people, more like during the periods when we "think" about how to kill people.
The space race also created a lot of new commercial technology. Velcro, mylar, electronics, etc.
We can thank war for many advancements in material science, plastics, metal alloys, etc, also the entire development of commerical air travel is based on military cargo and troop transport planes that were later redesigned for airlines.
Since they did not have computers then, the design of wings and structures was a crap shoot and the time tested designs from WWII went straight to producing McDonnell Douglas and other commercial airliners
While we are using SciFi as a basis of design, sounds farfetched but what we REALLY need today is an "Independence Day" style common enemy then we will stop thinking about individual countries and start acting in the best interests of all of humanity. Only then will we be able to rise out of the muck and mire and become a truly advanced species.
Time to just say "Piss Off"
Here in Western NY State we pay roughly 70 cents per gallon for state tax alone. Obviously, we have a better deal than you in Europe & GB as a gallon is about $3.89 for midgrade.
Just a thought but perhaps people across the whole world needs to tell their government to "Piss Off".
In almost every other situation, we receive something of value in return for the money that we spend.
Hate to overstate the obvious, but that does not appear to be true with taxes.
Honestly ask yourself, why should governments be treated any different than any business?
What about home built PC's?
Just curious but I don't buy desktop PC's any longer, I build my own from parts. Does anyone actually track that kind of scenario? Track OEM Windows activations perhaps??
I'll bet that has become a significant part of the market since it has become so easy to do, costs so much less and you get a MUCH better product than a PC manufacturer will provide.
This would be especially true during this recession.
Oh, Eadon, not everyone wants to struggle with a Linux distribution. I dislike Windows 8 but it will become a better product when the "Second Edition" is released.
Even now, the use of Classic Shell fixes almost all of the objectionable issues.
